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Shaquille O’Neal and Lil Rel Howery are in talks to join NBA star Kyrie Irving in basketball play “Uncle Drew.”

Variety initial reported on Feb. 9 that a plan had been set adult with Temple Hill Entertainment appropriation a underline film rights to Irving’s “Uncle Drew” Pepsi commercials. “Skiptrace” clerk Jay Longino was set to write a book and Irving was trustworthy to reprise a purpose of Drew.

Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and John Fischer will furnish a film. The strange Pepsi Max advertisements showed Irving personification 70-year-old Uncle Drew, who would uncover adult to pick-up basketball games and browbeat players half his age, while reminiscing about how a diversion used to be played.

The film will core on a patrol of a best geriatric basketball players who group adult to during a famed Rucker Court in Harlem. Howery will play a immature male who loves basketball and seeks out Uncle Drew’s help.